Design table part automatic insertion in assembly

[ramsank]

I have a design table of a tube with five variant say part 1. When i am inserting it inside the assembly based on the dimension of another part say part 2inside the assembly i want to link the design table variant. Example if part 2 has 20mm dimenaion,the assembly should have part 1 with design table variety 1 . Any idea how to implement this in solidworks

 

[drawoh]

ramsank,

You can assign intelligent configuration names to your part. In your assembly design table, you know the size, and you use concatenation in the Excel cell to call up the correct part configuration.

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JHG

 

[ramsank]

drawoh,thanks. Can you elaborate

 

[drawoh]

ramsank,

I am not working at the moment, and I do not have SolidWorks running here, so this is tricky.

You can use a design table to control the configuration of an attached part. Search Google for this.

In Excel, you can concatenate the contents of two, three or more cells. You can name your cells, which I strongly recommend. It makes your equations intelligent and readable.

Somewhere in your design table spreadsheet, you specify size. Let's name the cell "Size".

A column in your design table spreadsheet controls the configuration of attached parts. That cell contains the code [tt]="D="&Size&"mm"[/tt]. If Size is set to 20, the result is "D=20mm".

Most of the crazy stuff I have learned with spreadsheets is the result of me using 3D[ ]CAD.

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JHG